Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
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The Triplets of Belleville
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Thursday Apr 3, 2008 (7pm)
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Foregoing a bright color palette and simplistic dialogue in favor of silent film-style exposition, director Sylvain Chomet attains a curious kind of serious, silly reverie in this animated feature. After Madame Souza discovers her grandson's love of bicycles and trains him to be a racing machine, he's kidnapped from the Tour de France by a mysterious bunch of men. She stumbles upon unlikely assistance from a down-and-out musical trio, and they embark on a transcontinental rescue mission. From the film's reserved, sepia-toned umbers to its anti-heroes, three old ladies who sleep in the same bed, Triplettes takes typical expectations and flips them around — the seemingly depressing becomes the redemptive, and the seemingly archaic freshly iconic.
